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EVB2946263: Refugees crowd railway depot at Inchon, Korea, Jan. 3, 1951. They are fleeing the advancing North Korean/Chinese troops after the failure of the UN invasion (Nov.-Dec.-1950) above the 38th parallel. Nearby Seoul fell to the Communists on Jan. 7, 1951. Korean War, 1950-53 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946231: U.S. Airborne combat team en route to a drop zone at Munsan-ni, Korea, on March, 22, 1951. Packed into a C-119 Flying Boxcar, they jumped on the south bank of the Imjin River, 20 miles behind front line. Their mission to trap Communist forces retreating from Seoul was only partially successful because the enemy had already left. Korean War, 1950-53 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947934: President George W. Bush announced that 'Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.' On Sept. 20, 2001, to a Joint Session of Congress, 9 days after the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948030: Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter administers oath of office to Secretary of Navy, Col. Frank Knox. As World War 2 began in Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt organized a bi-partisan 'War Cabinet' including Republicans such as Knox in critical posts. July 11, 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948005: First nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction. December 2, 1942. Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was built under the direction of physicist Enrico Fermi, in collaboration with Leo Szilard. In 1943 it was dismantled and reassembled at the Palos Park unit of the Argonne National Laboratory. The drawing is by Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne National Laboratory / Bridgeman Images